Captain Blood (1935)

Leonard Mudie: Baron Jeffreys

Quotes 

• Dr. Peter Blood : My business was with his wounds, not his politics

  Baron Jeffreys : Did you know the law that any person who does knowingly receive, harbor, comfort or succor a rebel is as guilty as if he himself bore arms?

  Dr. Peter Blood : I only knew my sacred duty as a physician.

  Baron Jeffreys : Your sacred duty, rogue, is to your king!

  [coughs and sits back] 

  Dr. Peter Blood : I thought it was to my fellow man.

• Baron Jeffreys : It's a fearful thing to send a man's soul to perdition, but I am bound by my conscience and by my love of my king to deal out justice. Therefore, I instruct you gentlemen of the jury, that in as much as Peter Blood has admitted aiding a traitor to your king, you do bring in a verdict of guilty that he may be hanged for the high treason that he has committed.

  Dr. Peter Blood : What a creature must sit on the throne who lets a man like you deal out his justice.